A review by reka111
Особенная тень by Лия Арден

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Even if you hate me, I'll still love you. And I will pray that my second death, like the first, will lead me to you again. Only then will I know it wasn't in vain.

I felt a slight decline since the first book, which maybe was due to me, maybe not, in any case it didn't grab me like the pervious one. I feel that this book has come full circle in terms of the plot. In essence we have turned back to the beginning in a somewhat bizarre way. This book was full of hidden hints that only made sense later (so if you're reading, don't stop because you don't understand something, by the end almost everything will become clear).

We got to know a lot of new characters, which I was very happy about, since we didn't know about many of them until now. Our main characters remained the same, but I no longer felt the chemistry between them that I had in the previous book, I was terribly disturbed by this neither with you nor without you relationship, but then finally, with the help of the gods, they found their way back to each other again.

The plot was much more lively and much faster than the previous one, it was even easy to follow. Unfortunately, the ending didn't really impress me, the two-year gap was a bit pointless, but at least I didn't have many questions afterwards. All in all, we got a very eventful. funny, logical and wonderful story sprinkled with a little romance. In the future,

I definitely want to return to this world and experience Agatha's story again. I plan to read the third book sometime next month, since it takes place in a completely different era, with different characters, and in order to read it, I will have to forget this. Or at least to try to let them go. because for now it seems so ungodly impossible to let them go.


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